A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.
A form of abdominal exercise, based on a sit-up but in which the lower back remains in contact with the floor.
A dessert consisting of a crunchy topping with fruit underneath.
The overtime work required to catch up and finish a project, usually in the final weeks of development before release.
A shortage.
A critical moment or event.
A problem that leads to a crisis.
A small piece created by crushing; a piece of material with a friable or crunchy texture.
The symbol #.
To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations). Presumably from the sound made by mechanical calculators.
To make employees work overtime in order to meet a deadline in the development of a project.
To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
To cause the gears to emit a crunching sound by releasing the clutch before the gears are properly synchronised.
To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
To grind or press with violence and noise.
To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by decrunching.
The act or manner of ending a sound.
In the block system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be used at intermediate sidings without telegraphic stations.
The giving up of a claim, especially a debt.
Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).
A catch on a motor-starting rheostat, which automatically releases the rheostat arm and so stops the motor in case of a break in the field circuit.
The catch on an electromagnetic circuit breaker for a motor, triggered in the event of an overload.
The lever or button on a camera that opens the shutter to allow a photograph to be taken
Orgasm.
A kind of bridge used in jazz music.
The distribution of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product; the distribution can be either public or private.
The process by which a chemical substance is set free.
The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).
That which is released, untied or let go.
Liberation from pain or suffering.
To set free a chemical substance.
To let go (of); to cease to hold or contain.
To make available to the public.
To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of.
To set up; to provide with a goal-scoring opportunity
To free or liberate; to set free.
(of a call) To hang up.
To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder releases his right to the tenant in possession; to quit.
to come out; be out.
To discharge.
To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.